Disclosure Ref: 7

Disability Hate Crime convictions with sentence uplift statistics

Freedom of Information Act 2000 Request

Request

I copy your request in italics below for ease of reference:

‘Last year (2015-16), the CPS prosecuted 941 disability hate crime cases, with three out of four resulting in a conviction.

Please tell me in how many of these successful convictions the disability hate crime element of the case was accepted by the judge or magistrates in their sentencing.

Another way of phrasing this question is: in how many of these convictions did the magistrates or judge grant a sentence uplift for a disability hate crime under either section 146 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003, or the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (if the offence was murder).’

Response

In response to your request, please see the attached spread sheet and accompanying caveats. The table displays the number and proportion of convictions where an uplift was added. In addition to the caveats included, a further explanatory note has been provided in relation to sentence uplift.

Information Management Unit 020 3357 0899 FOIUnit@cps.gsi.gov.uk